As I made my way through the first third of Monkeys with Typewriters, I was vaguely aware of a tut-tutting from my inner voice, an occasional rolling of my inner eye. “Sheesh, this social media stuff wants to be seen as shiny, new and transformative,” they seemed to be saying, “but really it’s just another […]
Author: David Jennings
Do we need an agile learning community of practice?
Here’s are the slides for the presentation I gave last Friday at the Be Bettr conference. Agile Learning community of practice View more presentations from davidjennings. Click through to the slideshare page to read the speaker notes for each slide. From my position on the stage, I didn’t feel that the delivery was my finest […]
Unplugged! The Agile Learning newspaper
Here are the copies of the Agile Learning newspaper, of which I took delivery this afternoon. You can read the full text at the foot of this post, after the links which augment the physical version of the newsletter, including the unabridged versions of the interviews. If you’d like to keep in touch and find […]
Can we make a newspaper about self-organised learning?
I’m still digesting the eight interviews I’ve done on these pages in recent months under the Agile Learning banner. (I know, I know: if I haven’t digested them yet, how must you feel?) A few kind souls say there’s some valuable stuff in them, and a handful have even taken on the challenge of producing […]
Tony Hall on teaching by not teaching
This is one of a series of interviews I’m doing on the theme of Agile Learning. See also interviews on agile learning and agile technology, hands-on alternatives to factory learning, learner-generated contexts, home schooling, peer-to-peer learning in the enterprise and creating the School of Everything. Tony Hall takes photographs and makes photomovies. At the same […]
Ollie Nørsterud Gardener: an entrepreneur’s vision of peer-to-peer learning in organisations
This is one of a series of interviews I’m doing on the theme of Agile Learning. See also interviews on agile learning and agile technology, hands-on alternatives to factory learning, learner-generated contexts, home schooling and creating the School of Everything. Can social networks be environments for real learning? What would happen if you tried to […]
Resilience and scaling down in the face of decline (Dougald Hine discussion, part 2)
This is one of a series of interviews I’m doing on the theme of Agile Learning. See also interviews on agile learning and agile technology, hands-on alternatives to factory learning, learner-generated contexts, home schooling, peer-to-peer learning in the enterprise and creating the School of Everything. With hindsight, it was surprising that the first part of […]
Dougald Hine on School of Everything and asset-based development
This is one of a series of interviews I’m doing on the theme of Agile Learning. See also interviews on agile learning and agile technology, hands-on alternatives to factory learning, learner-generated contexts, home schooling, social, self-organised learning in the enterprises and resilience and scaling down. Dougald Hine is of the co-founders of the School of […]
Home rules: Annie Weekes on how and why home education works
This is one of a series of interviews I’m doing on the theme of Agile Learning. See also interviews on agile learning and agile technology, hands-on alternatives to factory learning, learner-generated contexts, social, self-organised learning in the enterprises and creating the School of Everything. When I first wrote about what I’m now calling Agile Learning, […]
Agile Learning meetups in London
Having taken a few soundings — and please complete our short Agile Learning survey if you haven’t already, as we’re keen to get a broader input — the first meetups are under way in London. In fact, this isn’t so much a new activity, as an evolution and gentle morphing of an existing one. More […]